Impact of wall thickness on conduit artery function in humans: Is there a "Folkow" effect?

Atherosclerosis

Volumn 217, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 415-419

  Thijssen, Dick H J ^a,b   Willems, Laura ^a   Van Den Munckhof, Inge ^b   Scholten, Ralph ^b   Hopman, Maria T E ^b   Dawson, Ellen A ^a   Atkinson, Greg ^a   Cable, N Timothy ^a   Green, Daniel J ^a,c  

^a LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Arterial diameter; Endothelial function; Flow mediated dilatation; Intima media thickness; Wall thickness

Indexed keywords

GLYCERYL TRINITRATE;

ADULT; ARTERIAL WALL THICKNESS; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTERY DILATATION; ARTICLE; BRACHIAL ARTERY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIAL ARTERY; SHEAR STRESS; SUPERFICIAL FEMORAL ARTERY; ULTRASOUND; VASODILATATION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRACHIAL ARTERY; FEMORAL ARTERY; GREAT BRITAIN; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; NITROGLYCERIN; RADIAL ARTERY; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; VASODILATION; VASODILATOR AGENTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79960700615     PISSN: 00219150     EISSN: 18791484     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2011.03.003     Document Type: Article

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